It did replace my watch, but I started wearing my watch again when I started a medication that has to be taken a certain amount of time before a meal. Using the watch's countdown timer is easier than setting an alarm or finding a Symbian app to do the countdown for me.

I waited until just recently to buy a Nintendo DS. Of course, there's a shortage on now and I got stuck with a pink one (I decided that was better than none)... and the US version of Electroplankton is out of print.

I'm often indecisive because I feel like I want to optimize everything. And I fall prey to buyer's remorse.

My wife and I just listened to the audiobook version on our way back from visiting our families. I recommend it highly.

Ah nevermind... this is just as good:

What I want to be able to do is a Google image search from an ordinary google search box (like the Ctrl+K one in FireFox, or in iGoogle) without an extra click. There doesn't seem to be a keyword for that as far as I've found...

Come to think of it... I prefer "handyman" to "hacker" for this particular metaphor. :)

(Programmers and software designers, read this book.)

I prefer jZip over 7zip by far.

Some of these make excellent Launchy fodder.

I absolutely hate the smell of vinegar. I couldn't do it.

I do the thing they say never to do — shave (face and head) sometimes with electric, sometimes with a Mach 3 Power. I find the Mach 3 cartridges last a nice long time, I think I've changed cartridges once this year.

Use libraries. Save money and paper/production costs both, whether you want paper books or audiobooks or movies or whatever.

There's also National Solo Album Writing Month ([nasoalmo.org]). I did it in 2005 and am trying again this year, and my wife has switched to it from NaNoWriMo this time.

I use standby all the time on my machine at home (via the "sleep" button on my keyboard) and have no problems with it — except it won't wake up again if I leave my Zune connected. As soon as I unplug it, it wakes just fine.

@q335r49:

@cv:

I envy people like you for whom it's that easy, Guardianfox. :)

Think of it like any other kind of communication: assume that the artist is saying something, and that what (s)he's saying makes sense from some point of view.

I just used Google to translate pounds to kilograms. ("X lbs in kg")